Alice Nutter
- Writer
- Producer
- Music Department
![Sziget Festival has become one of the largest music and cultural events of its kind in Europe. The dates are set for when a flood of festivalgoers colonise an island in the Danube for a week of madness. Anyone who has ever attended will tell you that there is something unique and indescribable about the atmosphere of the whole happening. Sziget means different things to different people. Some see it as a symbol of freedom while others associate it with love. And then there are those who are just there for the party. Sziget is synonymous with summer, the outdoors and a life lived together for a week every year. Everything spins in a simultaneous cycle for seven days and seven long nights as the music plays and masses of fans let down their hair. Music and faces. These are perhaps the two elements that can provide the greatest taste of Sziget as it really isÂ… ItÂ’s for those who have been and those still to experience summer in the city as it was meant to beÂ…](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ2NjM2NTMzNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODM0OTY4MTE@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,47,500,281_.jpg)
Born in Burnley in Lancashire in 1962, Alice Nutter first came to
notice as a vocalist and percussionist in the anarchic pop band
Chumbawamba. Whilst performing with the group Alice also worked in
journalism, writing for the Leeds Other Paper and Northern Star, and
left Chumbawamba in 2004 to learn how to be a dramatist at the
Yorkshire-based Avron Foundation. Her first play, 'Foxes', about a
multi-cultural relationship, was performed to general acclaim at the
West Yorkshire Playhouse and she has written other stage plays for the
venue and a radio play called 'Snow In July' in addition to her
television credits.